Real world use cases for C# indexers?

Question

I\'ve seen lot of examples for c# Indexers, but in what way will it help me in real life situations.

I know the C# guru wouldn\'t have added this if it wasn\'t a ser

Answer 1

The most obvious examples, as mentioned by Skurmedel, are List and Dictionary. What would you prefer over:

List list = new List { "a", "b", "c" };
string value = list[1]; // This is using an indexer

Dictionary dictionary = new Dictionary
{
    { "foo", "bar" },
    { "x", "y" }
};
string value = dictionary["x"]; // This is using an indexer

? Now it may be relatively rare for you need to write an indexer (usually when you're creating a collection-like class), but I suspect you use them reasonably frequently.